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title: "2 Baghdad Quotes By Janis Karpinski"
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> [The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-karpinski/the-mission-statement-was-ordered-and-it-sent-the-800th-mp-brigade/)

[Janis Karpinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-karpinski/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b02/janis-karpinski-24986_baghdad_the-mission-statement-was-ordered-and-it_75059.png)

> [Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-karpinski/shortly-after-we-arrived-in-baghdad-we-had-another-conversation-with/)

[Janis Karpinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-karpinski/)

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## Other authors on Baghdad

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-mohammed-saeed-alsahaf-68860.jpg) Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf 40 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baghdad/mohammed-saeed-al-sahaf/)

## More by Janis Karpinski

> [The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-karpinski/the-mission-statement-was-ordered-and-it-sent-the-800th-mp-brigade/)

[Janis Karpinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-karpinski/)

> [I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-karpinski/i-was-ordered-not-to-go-out-to-abu-ghraib-after-dark-early-on-because/)

[Janis Karpinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-karpinski/)

> [The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-karpinski/the-war-was-declared-over-the-end-of-major-combat-operations-in-may/)

[Janis Karpinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-karpinski/)

> [If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-karpinski/if-they-conducted-a-raid-in-this-room-you-d-all-be-policed-up-they-d/)

[Janis Karpinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-karpinski/)

> [And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-karpinski/and-shortly-after-that-when-i-try-to-get-access-to-those-soldiers-to/)

[Janis Karpinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-karpinski/)

> [Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-karpinski/shortly-after-we-arrived-in-baghdad-we-had-another-conversation-with/)

[Janis Karpinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-karpinski/)

> [There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-karpinski/there-was-a-military-police-brigade-with-over-3-400-soldiers-getting/)

[Janis Karpinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-karpinski/)

> [That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-karpinski/that-policy-was-abandoned-very-quickly-and-the-military-police-were/)

[Janis Karpinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-karpinski/)

> [We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-karpinski/we-need-to-fix-this-it-hasn-t-been-done-yet-because-there-s-still-a/)

[Janis Karpinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-karpinski/)

> [The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-karpinski/the-vast-majority-of-prisoners-at-abu-ghraib-even-after-interrogation/)

[Janis Karpinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-karpinski/)

> [Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-karpinski/military-intelligence-interrogators-however-their-goal-is-to-get/)

[Janis Karpinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-karpinski/)

> [The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-karpinski/the-day-after-the-prison-was-transferred-to-the-military-intelligence/)

[Janis Karpinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-karpinski/)

> [If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-karpinski/if-you-are-charged-with-this-responsibility-of-enhancing/)

[Janis Karpinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-karpinski/)

> [Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-karpinski/military-police-know-what-to-do-they-know-the-geneva-conventions-and/)

[Janis Karpinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-karpinski/)

> [I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janis-karpinski/i-thought-that-that-mission-and-the-mission-of-taking-care-of-those/)

[Janis Karpinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janis-karpinski/)

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